Fender for cultivators



(No Model.)

J. W. KENNEDY.

FENDER FOR GULTIVATORS.

No. 381,701. Patented Apr. 24, 1888.

WITNESSES:

ATTDRNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT Unions,

JOHN W. KENNEDY, OF MILTONVALE, KANSAS.

FENDER FOR CL)LfllViVlORS= SPECIFTCATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 381.701. dated April 2 3:, 1888.

Application tiled January 1.7, IESE. Serial No. 260,986. No model.)

To aZZ whom, it 11mg concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN XV. KENNEDY, of llIilt-onvale, in the county of Cloud and State of Kansas, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Fenders for Cultivators, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

This invention relates to fenders used on corn and other cultivators, including cotton and sugar'ea-ne cnltivators, but designed more particularly forcultivators used on growing checlc rowed corn and especially listed corn.

The invention consists in a fender of single or separate and novel construction, substantially as hereinafter describcd,and pointed out in the claim, and applicable to both single and double plow cultivators.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 represents a sectional side view of an ordinary straddle'row cultivator with two of my improved fenders applied, and Fig. 2 a rear elevation of the same. Fig. 3 is a view in perspective of the fender with attached adjusting-bar detached from the cultivator.

A A are the draft bars or shafts of the cultivator;BB, its running wheels; GO, its handles; and D D theheains to which the cultivator teeth or shovels E E are attached.

G G are the fenders, arranged upon the inner side of the inner one of each pairof shovels E E-that is, upon opposite sides of the row to be cultivated. Each of these fenders G is in the form of an elongated flat blade or plate rounded below in front, as at Z), and having its upper marginal portion curled over on its outer side, as at 0, toward and above the adjacent shovel E, with which it works in connection. These fenders in no way interfere with the handling of the plow or cultivator, and the curled portions 0 at their tops make them act as a mold-board of a stirring-plow to turn away the trash from the corn or plant being cultivated. They are not onlysi1nple,but easily attached to either single or double plow cultivators of different make without changing the cultivator or using extra bolts, and are made capable of adjustment up or down to v adapt them to the corn or plant and to interent kinds of land by providing each fender with a curved bar or strap, (1, running upward and having any number of perforations, 6, arranged one above the other, and through which the same bolt that secures the adjacent shovel to the frame may be passed, or a separate bolt be used, if desired.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A fender for cu]tivators,consisting of the flatblade G, rounded at its lower front corner, as shown at b, curved outward along its upper longitudinal edge, as shown at c, and the apertured strap 65, curved between its ends to fit the curve 0, and secured to the blade, substant-ialiy as set forth.

JOHN XV. KENNEDY.

Witnesses:

Geo. F. Leanne, CHARLES STOCK. 

